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Guilty By Association Truck Show under way in Joplin
The event, which goes through Saturday night, will feature a truck and tractor pull, motorcycle stunt rider show and fireworks Friday night. Saturday will feature the annual Special Olympics Convoy that will end in downtown Joplin with a concert by Tennessee trucker Tony Justice.
September 23, 2016
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Guilty By Association Truck Show coming to Joplin this month
The Chrome Shop Mafia is expecting more than 500 working show trucks during the event. Trucks can begin rolling in Thursday, Sept. 22 for the Friday and Saturday show.
September 1, 2016
A convoy for the Special Olympics will be held during the Guilty By Association Truck Show Sept. 23-24.
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4 States’ seventh annual truck show coming to Joplin, Mo., in September
The seventh annual Guilty By Association Truck Show, hosted by 4 State Trucks, home of the Chrome Shop Mafia, will be held Sept. 25-26 in its corporate headquarters in Joplin, Mo.
August 19, 2015
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Bryan Martin previews Guilty by Association Truck Show
The Guilty by Association Truck Show in Joplin, Mo., gets under way this Friday, Sept. 26. Owner-operator George Parker and Overdrive contributing writer Wendy Parker shot this brief preview video with 4 States’ Bryan Martin.
September 24, 2014
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Out from behind the camera: Big Rig Videos’ Chris Fiffie
Florida-based videographer and former truck driver Chris Fiffie has been turning heads over the past year with his vid series of Rolling CB Interviews with owner-operators.
September 24, 2014
Fiffie, picture above by Cheri Kimball at the Mid-America Trucking Show, has found a home covering the trucking world, he says. He got his start in video production with an early interest in cameras that ultimately led to a small business producing television commercials and variety of other work. Before that, though, he needed seed money to invest in the necessary equipment, well before digital video made that at least somewhat less cumbersome of a prospect. “I looked for a job,” he says, and “worked for my father as a mechanic” in his auto-repair shop in South Florida. Cue then a story in the local newspaper comparing various income numbers for particular professions, in which truck drivers and machine operators ranked quite high. “My next-door neighbor was a truck driver,” Fiffie adds. “I went for a ride with him once and then got my Class A, taking the money I made and buying video equipment with it.” Over four or five years, he’d built his arsenal “and was able to transition to a business doing video production.” Along the way, though, he never lost the interest in trucks and trucking. In 2006 he moved from South Florida to the West Coast of Florida to a small town with no video services. But “I wanted to explore,” he says. “I thought I’d take a driving job,” his first operating a Peterbilt, a 2006 triaxle 379 with 500 horses. “I really got hooked.” His video business hit hard locally by the economic crash a few years later, a friend mentioned the Chrome Shop Mafia was looking for “someone to come up to the Mid-America Trucking Show in 2012” to film the show for a DVD. That’s where the 4 State Trucks DVD series got its start, and with all the extra footage, Fiffie took to Youtube and Facebook, further developing ideas like the Rolling CB Interviews series.
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New Tony Justice interview, showcase vid from Christopher Fiffie
Fiffie’s work combines rolling shots and other footage with interviews and music as well, a perfect fit for singer-songwriter Justice as a subject. Take a look at it here.
March 6, 2014
Tony Justice’s new CD is available this at major truck stops for $12.99.
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Under the gun on the road
Wendy and George contemplate interior truck modifications: “We at least need dart guns for potential Sasquatch sightings, right?”
January 17, 2014
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More just positively terrible ideas
“Probably not the best idea in the world to have something that makes random “pop pop” sounds in a warehouse crammed full of Black Cats and Everclear.”
April 21, 2013
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Colin Stuart’s ‘Working Class,’ shown in Knoxville this weekend
Just as I was wrapping up my time at the Southeastern Regional Truck Show this past Saturday, April 14, what would pull into the lot at Knoxville, Tenn.’s Chilhowee Park on East Magnolia but this stupendous custom 1984 Peterbilt 359, the usually heavy-hauling (he had on a load of pallets Saturday) Working Class of Harvard, […]
April 16, 2012
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4 State’s Bryan Martin on Joplin rebuilding efforts in All Drivers Together conference call
In a conference call last week put together by the All Drivers Together group, a collaboration of owner-operators and drivers opening up a free conference line to drivers and others in the trucking industry around the nation to network and share information toward industry betterment, 4 State Trucks’ Bryan Martin noted the shift in efforts […]
June 15, 2011
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Daimler expects strong sales growth
Daimler had been projecting 20 percent to 25 percent growth, but could see it rise to 35 percent.
March 31, 2011
Aerodynamic testing shows optimized airflow over the Cascadia’s new side fairings.
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Guilty By Association Truck Show
& Customer Expo, Joplin, Mo., www.chromeshopmafia.com, (888) 875-7787
February 8, 2011
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